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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Chapters XVI - XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Elisha returns home for major festivals and uses this time to learn what from Amram?
(a) How to become a great rabbi and sage.
(b) Why Abuyah read Greek and Roman documents.
(c) The ways of business and estate management.
(d) How to stop the Jewish rebels.

2. Why is Rabbi Johannan amazed that Elisha is studying to become a rabbi?
(a) Because Elisha's father had strong sympathies for the Greek.
(b) Because Elisha is a lay carpenter.
(c) Because Elisha is a Greek.
(d) Because Elisha isn't intelligent enough to handle the job.

3. While the seventy sages of the Sanhedrin are in session, who raises the question about whether a man should use Greek books and letters to read and study?
(a) A Rabbi.
(b) Abuyah.
(c) Elisha.
(d) The Patriarch.

4. What type of teaching does Amram follow in his life, and how important is it to him?
(a) Amram is an unrelenting zealot in the Greek tradition.
(b) Amram follows both the Greek and Jewish teachings.
(c) Amram is an unrelenting zealot in the Jewish tradition.
(d) Amram is an atheist.

5. What happened to the merchant's business after the court case?
(a) He sold his business.
(b) His business was set on fire and he had to move to another building.
(c) His business went bankrupt and he was ostracized from the land.
(d) His business picked up and was better than before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of Meir's children?

2. What is the origin of Theo's name?

3. What is Deborah bothered by when around Meir and his wife?

4. Who tells Elisha Pappas is not good company for him, and that he should not be reading Greek books?

5. On his next journey, when Elisha stops in a small town what does he see?

(see the answer key)

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